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There is a supply chain path to establishing strong customer relationships and one that cannot be ignored or all of the effort on the “front end” of the business will be wasted. Chris Jones gives us his take on the 3 Rs of Supply Chain Competitiveness developed by supply chain pioneer Donald Bowersox while a professor at Michigan State University.

HGV Uk.com states Descartes’ Smartanalysis ready for CV show

Smartanalysis gets even smarter at the CV Show

Descartes’ Smartanalysis the UK’s leading tachogragraph analysis and compliance management Software as a Service has become even smarter with SmartLicence, an integrated driving licence management and verification service with DVLA.

All employers need to ensure that anyone driving on behalf of the company is licensed and entitled to drive. With around 22% of drivers using out of date documents and 1 million just 3 points away from a disqualification a visual check of a driving licence once a year is not enough. Things can change very quickly and licence details should be verified with DVLA at least twice a year. Ignorance is no defence.

At The CV Show 2014 Descartes will be demonstrating how users can set the frequency of licence checks with DVLA based on the drivers’ risk profile using SmartLicence. As with Smartanalysis, once it is set up everything happens in the background. Users can subscribe to reports and alerts and have the results emailed to them. The licence verification is conducted online with the DVLA and results are normally received overnight. The transport operators’ tachograph and driving licence data is safe, secure and always available should the authorities want to see it.

Busy Transport Managers can now manage their compliance with tachograph regulations, drivers’ hours and the Working Time Directive whilst ensuring their drivers are licensed to drive, any time and any place via the internet with a subscription to Smartanalysis. Full details are available on Descartes’ new SmartCompliance website.

Descartes will also be providing a sneak preview of their new mobile walk-around vehicle check application which will be released later in the year and have full details of their routing and scheduling solutions for fleets of all sizes.

Descartes will be at the CV Show, visit stand 4F118 to find out how to save time, money and headaches in managing compliance and how you can realise the benefits of optimising your transport operations. Telephone +44 1249 463355 or email atavener@descartes.com for further information.

Map-21 Resource Center: Stay up-to-date on the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act

Descartes celebrates 15 years on NASDAQ

Descartes celebrated the 15th anniversary of our listing on NASDAQ on Monday, January 27, 2014. We are pleased to be part of the exchange, thankful for the recognition and look forward to many more years of success.

Smartanalysis, the UK’s leading tachograph analysis and compliance management Software as a Service, has become even smarter with SmartLicence, an integrated driving licence management and verification service.

Smartanalysis is already used by thousands of road transport operators, from one-man owneroperators to the very largest household names with thousands of vehicles. It saves them time, money and headaches in managing their compliance with legislation concerning analogue and digital tachograph data, Drivers’ Hours and the Working Time Directive.

Descartes Community White Paper

Stock visibility central for John Lewis at Omni-channel Summit

The November/December edition of HSS magazine features an article on stock visibility and omni-channel approach.

Simon Duddy: "There's much more to the world of retail home deliveries than a man in a van. In fact, successful fulfilment stems from strong stock visibility and the retailer's ability to make quick and intelligent decisions about deliveries when orders are being placed."

White Paper: The Next Big Thing in Supply Chain and SaaS - The Rise of the “Entrusts”

By Art Mesher, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Descartes

This article defines a new business model which advances the author’s 22 year history of theorizing and forecasting the computing models of federating networks. This work is an update to his initial 1992 writings on federated logistics 1992 enabled by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) grant for Benchmarking Partners.

The initial work was subsequently updated in a series of papers from 1995 to 1997 for the Gartner group and, again, in 2008 for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. This article picks up where his last writing left off by suggesting that both business relationships and IT systems will see an end to “permanence” as we know it today and that this will lead to the emergence of a new business model dubbed “Entrusts”.

Acceleration is impacting business. The pace at which good and services commoditize is accelerating. The business transparency that can be gleaned from “big data” is accelerating. The rate of technological change is accelerating. Things are getting faster. With things changing so quickly, it doesn’t make sense to have relationships or technology that can’t keep up.

Business relationships and their supporting systems will see a striking end to their fixed, long-term nature or “permanence” as it has been known in the past. Businesses will protect their margins by demanding relationships that guarantee outcomes or insure against failure. A new breed of company will rise to meet this demand in various communities. These companies will be characterized by continuous investment in systems that network communities and authenticated community participation with credentials, leading to creation of “trust federations” or what is dubbed "Entrusts".

This article will also briefly describe 4 businesses (Nulogy, e2Open, SPS Commerce and Descartes) and their characteristics as Entrusts.